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Graying Suburbs
Sustainable Communities
May 7, 2009
As America’s elderly population continues to grow, municipalities face new challenges of providing adequate services. Ellen Dunham-Jones, AIA, of the Georgia Institute of Technology and co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs, and Jeffery W. Anderzhon, FAIA, 2006 chair of AIA’s Design for Aging Advisory Board, discuss solutions to this upcoming demographic crisis. Elinor Ginzler, AARP’s senior vice president for Livable Communities, moderates.
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Beauty vs. Barricades
Charles H. Atherton Memorial Lecture
April 14, 2009
Robert Campbell, architectural critic for The Boston Globe, examines how to balance the need for security with accessibility, transparency, and aesthetics in D.C.’s built environment.
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Great Green Places: Dupont Circle
Great Green Places
February 11, 2009
Everyone can name great public places, such as parks, squares, and outdoor markets found in cities across the country. But what makes these places work? Why do people seek them out and congregate there in large groups? And what makes some of public spaces “greener?" In an effort to provide a “decoder ring” to reveal what makes these places so successful, the National Building Museum presents a series of mini-documentaries that identify the specific elements that help make Great Green Places.
In this first installment of Great Green Places take a tour of Washington, D.C.'s Dupont Circle.
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Robert Lautman: Remembering a Lifetime of Architecture on Film
February 3, 2009
In 2007, Washington’s dean of architectural photography, Robert Lautman, donated his photographic archives to the National Building Museum. In this special celebration, Lautman and Museum curator Chrysanthe Broikos discussed his 60-year career capturing architecture on film.
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How to Spend a Trillion Dollars
Sustainable Communities
February 2, 2009
Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D., Herbert and Joyce Morgan senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and Bill Millar, president, American Public Transportation Association, and moderator Dr. Jonathan L. Gifford, George Mason University School of Public Policy, debate the future of transportation in America.
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A Room With a View
Detour: The Landscape of Travel on Film
January 28, 2009
Detour: The Landscape of Travel on Film
In this three-week series, Ann Hornaday, Washington Post film critic, and Deborah Sorensen, curatorial associate at the National Building Museum, introduce films featuring unexpected and powerful encounters with the natural world. In A Room With a View, a young Englishwoman tours Italy in the early 1900s and is transformed by its culture, the countryside...and her fellow travelers.
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Sustainable Communities: Connecting Infrastructures and People to Protect the Environment
Building for the 21st Century
January 26, 2009
Dr. Woodrow Clark discussed his work developing “agile” energy systems, which generate energy for a cluster of buildings, such as a college campus, from local or on-site power while also tying to the central grid. To view the associated PowerPoint presentation go to: http://www.nationalbuildingmuseum.net/pdf/DoE12609_GreenCampusesNBM.pdf
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David Macaulay at The Big Draw
June 23, 2007
David Macaulay leads visitors in sketching exercises just for fun and as a new way of seeing and responding to their surroundings during the 2007 Big Draw event.
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Tour of the Glidehouse
October 5, 2006
Designed by Michelle Kaufmann, the Glidehouse is a prefabricated, green house ready to go anywhere. Take this walk through the house and get a first-hand experience of what it might be like to live in a green house.
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Solar Century
Building for the 21st Century
April 18, 2004
Glenn Hamer, executive director of the Solar Energy Industries Association, discuses the history of the solar energy industry and its explosive recent growth, innovative residential and commercial projects, and the policies and practices that will make the sun one of the most important energy sources of the 21st century.
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